Bruce Mau Quotes

#1. I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?'

Rick Baker

#2. Design the life that you want to live.

Bruce Mau

#3. Ever since it became theoretically evident that our precious personal identities were just brand-tags for trading crumbs of labour-power on the libidino-economic junk circuit, the vestiges of authorial theatricality have been wearing thinner.

Nick Land

#4. For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

Bruce Mau

#5. Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

Bruce Mau

#6. Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

Frederick W. Smith

#7. I'm 61 now, and I'm comfortable in my lifestyle ... I don't yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That's fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.

Mike Schmidt

#8. Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Bruce Mau

#9. He yells, "I want any part of you that you're willing to give me!"
We both fall quiet. Breathing hard. Staring each other down.
And his voice drops low. Defeated. "I'll take anything, Kate.
Just ... don't tell me it's over. I won't accept that.

Emma Chase

#10. No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.

Bruce Mau

#11. Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.

Bruce Mau

#12. What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.

Bruce Mau

#13. Now that we can do anything what will we do?

Bruce Mau

#14. Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity.
Good is what we all agree on.
As long as you stick to good,
you'll never have real growth.

Bruce Mau

#15. To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.

Bruce Mau

#16. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

Albert Einstein

#17. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value

Bruce Mau

#18. You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in.

Kamand Kojouri

#19. Now pull back briefly from the dripping streets of Ankh-Morpork, pan across the morning mists of the Disc, and focus in again on a young man heading for the city with all the openness, sincerity, and innocence of purpose of an iceberg drifting into a major shipping lane.

Terry Pratchett

#20. Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.

Bruce Mau

#21. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

Bruce Mau

#22. Don't be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

Bruce Mau

#23. The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

Bruce Mau

#24. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

John F. Kennedy

#25. Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

Bruce Mau

#26. My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing.

Sarah Shahi

#27. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

Bruce Mau

#28. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.

Bruce Mau

#29. I've come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, 'What if?'

Ellen Klages

#30. In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians.

Karl Marx

#31. When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.

Bruce Mau

#32. If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your
mistakes, learn from them.

Charles J. Sykes

#33. Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him.

Caroline Mitchell

#34. I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

Bruce Mau

#35. Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

Gail Carriger